If you’re not making this up, then I’d say if the Tea Party is giving any consideration at all to electing at least one third-party candidate (ala what they did with a Conservative Party candidate for Congress in New York last year, and lost by an eyelash) to deliver a message to the GOP, your state is the place they should do it. There’s no reason for rifle-association members or right-to-lifers (or any other group exercizing their God-given right of free association) to live in dread of their officials, they should stand as one in sending a message of reminding their officials just WHOM they are supposed to work for. And there’s no reason a newspaper should stand for being victimized by practices smacking of a third-world dictatorship. If Moran and the moneyed interests backing him are made to pay dearly for their shenanigans at the polls in November, that will make it far less likely anyone will cross the Tea Party that way again. So the wisest thing the Tea Party leadership could do is hold a press conference on Pajamas Media, make it clear they won’t stand for primary voters sticking the November electorate with crooks, and assure the targets of this bullying and hacked newspaper that if they’ll take on Moran in November, they’ll get backing to the hilt.
